Hello,
This photo was taken three weeks ago from my fathers window.It’s my favourable place for training macro and flying gull shuts:)My plan was to shut fighting gulls and crows and I didn’t used my 1.4TC for getting faster autofocus speed.I cropped about %30 from original frame and added
+15 contrast at PS-CS2
Have a great day,thanks for looking!

Perfect moment for a perfect shot Sebnem.
The aesthetic composition based on the location and exact conjunction of the bird and the sun compose a great scene with the image parted in half by the horizon.
The gradient of colors is really wonderful offering an atmosphere of absolute calm.
Thank you and regards... Ricardo

Merhaba Sebnem,
Amazing color-effect shot here!
I like a lot the tones you got with everything else than the sun.
Great the bird detail centered into the vanishing sun.
Excellent timing here, and I like a lot the composition.
Congratulations, thanks for share and my best regards,
JM

Thank Heavens, I am now free from work pressure and back to my enjoyment of TN pictures.
And what a mind-blowing work I am being treated to through this pictures of yours, Sebnem!
How you have managed such a picture of the setting sun staggers the imagination.
With various shades of its hot colours distinctly separated from each other, the sun seems to be melting and disappearing into the sea.
To top it all, that bird at the exact mid point on the lower part of the glowing orb seems like a miracle some divinity has blessed you with, Sebnem, for we only IMAGINE about such things and seeing them for real is nothing less than a miracle.
I am awed by your work, dear friend.
Ram

Merhaba Sebnem,
After seeing your wonderful bird photographs, this one came as a suprise. The telephoto view is refreshing after seeing myriads of underexposed needle-point sunsets. But to you, this is probably another bird photo, no :)? Exposure, sharpness and depth-of-field are all very good. Congratulations and best wishes,
Hakan

Hello Sebnem,
Wow ! Your father live in a nice place ;-) Great moment with the bird in front of the sun ! The sun colors are superb. Because I am jalous, I will say that the frame is a bit distracting and perhaps a more rectangular composition...
Congratulations my dear friend and TFS.

WOW!!!! What a wonderful picture! And across a window!!! I'm impressed! The sun is awesome with its reflection in the water... Having that bird crossing it is just fantastic! Great job and excellent title!

Hi Sebnum, your dad has a wonderful view from his place. The colours are great, and I like how you have managed to show thge bird right there in teh middle of the sun - well planned.
But unfortunately the horizon is slightly tilted to the right. That's a big problem with sea views...
Janice

a very dificult photo to expose but you really managed very well...great composition and colours, and the seagull is the cerise in the top of the cake!
only one remark:the horizon line is a little tilt and you put it in the middle of the frame(you break 2 rules of composition LOL!)
best regards
pedro

Beautiful! You have captured the shot at a perfect timing, with the seagull silouetting the sun. The sun itself is amazing. Im impressed of the way you have captured it directly without overexposing the sun and/or underexposing the foreground. How do you do it? Do you underexpose the picture by high shutter speed and correct it in PS afterwards? I dtend to get a very dark foreground if I shoot directly into the sun.

Hello Sebnem,
So we can say farewell to the bird starting his travel towards the sun. There is a very nice record of a band called Dead Can Dance "Within the Realm of Dying Sun". Your shot would a perfect illustration to that record :-)
Best greetings,
Michal

That image is surreal, Sebnem. Breathtaking!
You could not have captured a more perfect moment,
with the gull flying right in the middle of the setting sun.
The colors are just magnificent. Congratulations.
TFS. : )

What a charming capture!
This is indeed a picture-postcard!
The view from your father's window is one that i'm sure inspires gelousy to just about everyone ;)
The mood of this picture is amazing and the composition impeccable! The colors are brilliant and the details lovely.
I really like the picture just as you posted it (i'm not saying that the workshops are bad...not at all...but i just like yours better :) ).
One more thing: the composition is OUTSTANDING!

Hi Sebnem
THAT ROCKS! Great timing and camera work to get this shot. The 500 did a superb job compressing the scene. My only suggestion might be to crop some of the water off the bottom, maybe about 25% of it. That would get the horizion line out of the middle of the scene and give it more of a panoramic feel. I love how the colors of the sun appear to be running onto the water.
Scott

Hi Sebnem,
Just wonderful. What a photo and what a colors. Superb job on the exposure and on the moment captured. The bird in front of that amazing looking sun is so beautiful. I just need to add this to my fav's
TFS,
Niek

Hello Sebnem,
This is so beautiful; it looks like a postal card. I love this composition, colors and exposure. Well seen and well done! I think that the horizon's line could be tilted a bit to the left. Thanks,
Claudine

Hello Sebnem,
Very good timing..Once for the setting sun, twice for the gull seen flying into it..
It almost looks like an atom bomb at that first nano-second...call me strange ;}
Just don't call me late for supper :)
Very well done.

this is what i do...get everything set up...pov etc...then the wait for that bird..!!!!
i usually give up but you got it...
brilliant sunset and full of wonder as the sun flattens itself on the hot belt of air near the horizon..
have you seen the green flash..
cheers
geof

Hello Sebnem !
This is an awesome shot ! This sun is truly wonderful, so big and such beautiful colors ! The gull is a wonderful, and his position is perfect, in the middle of the sun. It's a great moment that you captured here, thanks for sharing...
Valérie.

I don’t really think I need to say any more as it is quite obvious that this is one of those few shots that every photographer dreams to be able to take one day. As if the scenery was not good enough, you still had to go and cap it with the bird smack bang in the centre of the remarkable sun that seems to be pouring out on to the horizon. WOW, what IMPACT.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is kind of sunset we often see in magazines or newspapers. I always wanted to take one like this. Absolutelly perfect. Very nostalgic, with superb composition with flying bird. I love shape of sun distorted by atmosphere and of course its brilliant colours. Superb work my friend!

I planned to vote this photo several times and never saw it in the correct moment, now I see it again I must congratulate you for the impressing capture, and send you my compliments :)
Very artistic work!
Regards, Felipe.
PD: The red circle in the border of the sun looks quite artificial, it is a strange effect you captured.

Hi Sebnem,
Nothing can be better than this. So much beauty and charm in this shot and the effect is just stunning. It must have taken some effort to have the bird right at the centre of the glowing/dying sun. The tranquility of the place and the cool atmosphere is well captured and portrayed. Excellent POV and a superb composition. Kudos.
TFS.
Sumon

A wonderful moment, Sebnem! Sometimes when I see the sunset I try to find any bird to take a picture like this. It is soooo nice! The big sun is great, and you did a nice work to get it like this. The bird detail... well, it is the difference here. The purple is just amazing...Congratulations!
Regards,
Zeca

Wow!!! What a photograph. Speechless. It looks like a masterstroke painting from some art gallery. mesmerizing color of the sun in the dark background, presume it is dusk. The unbelievable positioning of the gull, salute to you.
TFS.